I'm back!

Post application submission beverage and sustenance.

Sooo...after last minute loss of support from my two most important backers for my Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant application, I managed to claw one back (arguably the most important) at the last second - ie about 12noon today...5 hours prior to submission deadline!

Nice - so if we are super lucky, in a couple of months there will be a Commonwealth funded Australian Mathematical Sciences Learning and Teaching Network! But don't anyone hold your breath...there's not much cash and I know of 4 other applications from QUT's Faculty of Science and Technology alone (not maths...other things...although one of them is Statistics education as I found out indirectly).

Much thanks to my team members: Shaun Belward (JCU), Mark Nelson (Wollongong), Carmel Coady (UWS), Maureen Townley-Jones (Newcastle), Anne Porter (Wollongong), Irene Hudson (Newcastle) and Antony Dekkers (CQUniversity) and also to those who provided assistance including Australian Mathematical Society via Peter Taylor, Steph Beames and BUNSE, Kelly Matthews from the Quantitative Skills Network, some folks at QUT and of course my wife who dealt with my hissy fits and excessive swearing both at certain people and at Microsoft word. :P